Immigration

It seems, 2018 augur well for India and Indian Australians. Only two weeks into it, the Andrews Labor Government launched its India strategy and the premier went flew to India on his first official visit as state premier which had trade, education as the main focus with cricket and cultural ties thrown in the mix…

Melbourne, January 28: Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Victoria hosted a dinner reception to commemorate Australia Day at the biggest mosque in Melbourne, The Baitul Salam mosque, situated in beautiful Langwarrin. Over 350 people including 150 guests attended the event. National President and Grand Imam of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Australia, Imam Inam-ul Haq Kauser was the…

Melbourne, February 8: A racist note was reportedly left on a man’s car in Melbourne’s south-east while he was shopping for groceries at a shopping centre. The man, who is of Indian background, found the flyer attached to his car’s windscreen after returning from his local Woolworths in Moorabbin. The suburb boasts of 3.7 per cent…

Canberra: Treasurer Scott Morrison delivered his Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) last month and confirmed that the Budget remains on track to return to balance in 2020-21. “Despite the many challenges faced, this is the Government’s fifth consecutive budget update with a projected return to balance in 2020-21”, he proudly claimed. An underlying cash…

83-86% support multiculturalism, 63% support immigration: report The Federations of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia (FECCA) said today that the Scanlon Foundation’s 2017 Mapping Social Cohesion Report, shows continuing strong support in Australia for multiculturalism, and positive attitudes toward immigration. The report shows that support for the proposition that ‘multiculturalism has been good for Australia’…

Tarneit, November 18: A M Gondane, Indian High Commissioner to Australia, who was on an official visit to Melbourne on Saturday; was scheduled visit the Tarneit Gurudwara among other Indian places of worship. He was however, stopped at the entrance of the Tarneit Gurudwara by pro-Khalistani protesters, who argued with him for a long time…

United Nations, November 9: The UN Human Rights Commission (UNHRC) has denounced the Australian government for withdrawing support to former Manus Island detainees as the stand-off over the provision of services to more than 600 men entered its fifth day on Saturday. It comes as the detainees have called for an investigation into the death…

Sydney, November 3: 39-year-old Uber driver Gaurav Marwah was arrested after he allegedly engaged in a sexually explicit conversation with an undercover detective believing he was communicating with a 14-year-old girl. Marwah was in fact, was chatting with an under-cover detective CEIU27, from the State Crime Command’s Sex Crimes Squad’s Child Exploitation Internet Unit –…

Melbourne, November 1: A senior Adani executive, Muthuraj Guruswamy defended the company’s controversial Carmichael coal mine project in Queensland. He said he was not ashamed to say he worked for Adani or in the mining industry, addressing a mining conference at the Melbourne Convention Centre. This followed when anti-mining protesters burst into the conference as…

Australian universities are not even on “the radar” for Indian students planning to study abroad and should consider a recruitment campaign targeting second tier Indian cities, according to the Visiting Chair in Contemporary India at the University of Sydney Business School. With nearly half a million foreign students enrolled in Australian universities this year, tertiary…